It is really common for someone to think that they weren’t intended to be a singer - they just “weren’t born with it.” There is a primary group of individuals to blame for this myth: the ignorant.
For someone to say “singing is something you have to be born with” is like saying “swimming skills are something you have to be born with.” Tell Babe Ruth that it is something you have to be born with. I think you all know this. Michael Jordan got CUT from his high school basketball game team.
He didn’t take that very well so he commenced practicing all day every single day. Then he made the team. Then he attained a place on one of the most authoritative college basketball game teams in the nation. Then he was drafted to the NBA and went down in history as one of the best to ever play the game. Basketball skills aren’t something you have to be born with, and neither are singing skills.
Anybody can learn how to sing.
There is something else to blame: the popular culture’s hit show “American Idol.” The show is Planned for entertainment, it is a BUSINESS. How do they get money? They sell all of the fledgling vocalists to America as a kind of entertainment. Also picture that those vocalists are specifically picked out because they are the worst case scenarios of singers who don’t know how to apply their articulation and have no control over pitch. That can be changed.
Back to the ignorant. People who don’t recognize anything about singing will articulate that all of those inferior American Idol auditioners are tone deaf. If you reckon they are all tone deaf then I am thankful you are reading this. They aren’t tone deaf. They just don’t know how to apply their voice. Tone deafness is actually very rare. The actual trouble is a lack of vocal cognition. I was in the similar spot as those “tone deaf singers.” Anybody who saw me sing would right away point the finger and label me as “tone deaf.” I am NOT tone deaf. When I met Perry, he took me through some pitch rating exercises and it was clear that I am not tone deaf at all - I just didn’t know how to use my voice. I could hear the melodic line and pitches dead clear IN MY HEAD, but as soon as I tried to render it into vocals, I didn’t know HOW to do it - therefore it SEEMED as if I was tone deaf.
In future you hear a singer that you would tag as “tone deaf,” think again. They probably just don’t know how to use their voice.
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